Slow Flowers Podcast

Slow Flowers Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 737: Herbs for floral design (and the garden) with Stefani Bittner of Homestead Design Collective and Rose Loveall of Morningsun Herb Farm
October 09, 2025

https://youtu.be/celZnV8yrZg?si=pYtq6P5iOTXJOXXK Compared to the way todays guests view the role of herb plants for the landscape, for culinary and medicinal purposes, and especially for floral d

Episode 736: Meet the people, farms, and florists shaping Japan’s Slow Flowers Movement
October 02, 2025

A visit to Japan for two weeks in September was the ultimate dream come true. My husband Bruce and I, joined by three dear friends, experienced some of the countrys incomparable beauty, culture, hist

Episode 735: The magic of dahlias with Anne Long of The Dahlia House
September 24, 2025

https://youtu.be/_S5lU5VPqk8?si=nJkFjh_vDEfP4aV5 Anne Long likes to call herself a cheerleader for dahlias and many other flowers that she wants gardeners and growers to experience. I love ridicu

Episode 734: A visit to The Little Farm on Olga Road, with Carol Wetzel and Allan Tone, where customers are welcomed to harvest the beauty of flowers, herbs, and vegetables
September 17, 2025

https://youtu.be/XiAbthV5xU4?si=Ci5qiYKnqEG70vDS At The Little Farm on Olga Road on Orcas, Carol Wetzel and Allan Tone live in a small house and have devoted much of the surrounding three acres to

Episode 733: Field tour and design demonstration with Alicia Houston of Healer’s Harvest
September 10, 2025

https://youtu.be/_uKTLKHF5Zg?si=pu1QJXMfHrY2RnRs Alicia Houston is the founder of Healers Harvest, based in Poulsbo, Washington. After moving to the Pacific Northwest from San Diego to care for h

Episode 732: Celebrating Taylor Swift’s Engagement as People Magazine’s Floral Expert with Ashley Greer of Atelier Ashley Flowers
September 03, 2025

https://youtu.be/C8G7Tn-8y6E?si=8e5f8qkEfMVU1UzE The news was impossible to ignore last Tuesday, as the Internet exploded with reports of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelces engagement. For flower peo

Episode 731: High Desert Dahlias on Colorado’s Front Range, with Dianne Reitan of Dianne’s Dahlias
August 27, 2025

https://youtu.be/YIqJkwH7LXY?si=Mz5TXBzwyF6f6Xuy Its dahlia season and gardeners and growers everywhere are celebrating the endless variety and exquisite beauty of the Slow Flowers movements it

Episode 730: Meet farmer-florist Colleen Raney of Diadem Flowers as we discuss her new project, Songbird Seed Co., specializing in hard-to-find British sweet pea seeds and more
August 20, 2025

https://youtu.be/gaTn7jO3DS4?si=xEnvvGPsdI7t0di3 I truly love learning about the floral journeys that so many of our members have taken to arrive at a life immersed in flower growing, floral desig

Episode 729: Jenny Jonak of Dragon Song Farm on building community, enriching a family’s lifestyle, and encouraging creative expression through flower farming
August 13, 2025

https://youtu.be/L3ykZ98zqsE?si=uJggIXWspcqsw0mo Dragon Song Farm is located in Oregons Willamette Valley outside Eugene. Founder Jenny Jonaks mission is to bring a sense of floral magic to her

Episode 728: Building a Successful Floral Tourism Destination, with Lori and Jim Bochner of Bochner Farms in Indianola, Iowa
August 06, 2025

https://youtu.be/EB6eWif0mio?si=pfsFql-4xDnbwBWN The Bochner family lived in the Des Moines, Iowa, suburbs for many years, in a house surrounded by a beautiful flower garden. As gardeners with oth